Tariq Trotter’s 2023 memoir about growing up in Philadelphia will be the focus of the Free Library’s all-city reading program.

'The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are,' by The Roots cofounder Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, is ...

Five days a week, they hit the streets, running 13 different library shifts. Their clientele? People who are unhoused.

There are some interesting stories tied to Stamping Ground from croquet legend Archie Burchfield to the history of Buffalo ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen.

Robin Kelley didn’t think she would sell many more copies of the children’s book she wrote and illustrated. The Chippewa Falls art teacher published “Ostriches Eat Sausages: An Alphabet Book” in 2021 ...

In 1925, the first issue of The New Yorker was published. In 1934, Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Cesar Augusto Sandino was killed by members of the country's national guard.

Stage Notes is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music and stage news, events, reviews and other pertinent information. Stage Notes Calendar Opening this week: Sammons Cabaret: Astrid ...

Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

A new picture book, based on Sam Cooke’s iconic anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come” is set to publish this year via Little Bee ...

Tariq Ali was arrested at Munich airport. His hand luggage contained two objects which were regarded as suspicious: a book by ...